The PICClub website is a membership website that helps United States poker players withdraw and deposit funds safely to play online at many different poker rooms. The PICClub now offers a new e-wallet solution for players to conveniently withdraw and deposit funds to play onli...

The inaugural Sports Legends Challenge will take place this September and four more sports pros have signed up to participate in the tournament. Mixed martial arts stars Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture, skateboard legend Tony Hawk and Mark Messier a NHL ice hockey legend will ...

RedKings recently announced they have two new pros signed to their poker team, Jason Samsonov and Jeffery Tan. Both pros are from Singapore and were signed just in time to compete in the Asian Poker Tour Macau Festival.

Samsonov and Tan will both be competing in the event whi...

ESPN is the hot place to be right now for poker programming. The television station recently began airing the 2009 World Series of Poker coverage and now they have announced a new web-only show to begin airing next week.

The new show is called ESPN Inside Deal and will be a w...

The Irish Poker Classic is set to begin on August 10th through the 16th at the Macau Sporting Club in Cork, Ireland. And of course with a new tournament beginning soon, the online poker rooms have begun to offer online qualifiers for players to earn their seats. Such room as L...

HeadsUp Entertainment International Inc. owns the Canadian Poker Tour and they recently announced they will be holding poker tournaments in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Canadian Poker tour has been register and sanctioned to host a series of poker tournaments at the Club Regent Cas...

Poker In the Park is set to begin soon in August and many poker pros will be on hand to give lectures for those attending the event. the official schedule has been announced for the festival so attendees can know who will be giving lectures.

The first day of Poker In the Park...

Dublin has won the European Poker Capital 2009 award for the second year in a row just barely beating out London, according to Bluff Europe, the popular poker magazine. The online magazine praised the enthusiasm of the citizens of Dublin for their love of the game as well as t...

The game of poker was recently removed from the list of official Russian sports which was created back in 2007. It was on July 20th the game was removed from the list and this created problems for PokerStars which was set to host a European Poker Tour event in August. Because ...

It seems to me one of the hardest finishes to take would be tenth place at the World Series of Poker Main Event. It is the last finish from the November Nine making the player come just shy of earning glory for the year. Jordan Smith of College Station was this year’s pl...

The Italian Poker Tour has finished up in San Remo and now is moving to Venice. The tour will take place in Venice beginning on July 27th and ending on August 2nd. Competitors in the tournaments will be able to enjoy the sights and sounds of Venice as they participate in the t...

The poker game show created by NBC will be debuting on August 1st. the new show is called Face The Ace and will feature poker pros going toe to toe with players who qualified online to appear on the show.

The new show will feature Steve Schirripa as the host. Schirripa is bes...

A five day poker festival kicked off yesterday in Southend at the Rendezvous Casino and players are already competing to win the top prize. The prize pool for the event is £30,000 and the festival is named the Face to Face Poker Festival.

This festival is following in t...

Famous people, celebrities and those in the public eye have people constantly wanting to be in the know of their lives. From what they do to how they live, people are always interested. Many times these people are so interesting that someone will write an autobiography about t...

Poker In the Park is set to begin next month and it was announced recently that WSOP Champion Jamie Gold will be hosting a special charity tournament during the two day poker festival. The charity tournament will take place at The Casino At The Empire on August 13th.

Peter Ea...

Just a short time ago the APAT Scottish Amateur Poker Championships took place at the Gala Maybury Casino in Edinburgh. The event was sold out as so many competitors came to try their hand at earning the top prize. But it was Derek Murdie from Hawick who managed to outlast the...

888’s independent business-to-business division, Dragonfish, recently announced an agreement signed with Loper Gate LTd to launch an online poker and casino in the Balkans. Loper Gate Ltd is a Cyprus based Media Company and working with Dragonfish, will be launching seve...

Shane Warne is this year’s winner of the Poker Ashes tournament as he competed alongside his teammates on team representing Australian. The tournament was organized by 888 Poker and Warne proved his worth as a poker player.

Warne was on the Australian team with Damien M...

It hasn’t been long since Absolute Poker signed a new member to their poker team, Matt Vengrin. Even so the online poker room has signed yet another player to the poker team. Absolute Poker has signed Model turned poker pro Lacey Jones to their poker team.

Lacey began h...

Dusty Schmidt is a golfer who was recently denied amateur status by the USGA for issuing a million dollar challenge to anyone who could beat him at 72 rounds of golf and one game of poker.

Because of this denial, Schmidt has filed a complaint seeking a restraining order that ...

CarbonPoker launched a new promotion in July called the Carbon Million Promotion. The new promotion will run through August and it is open for all players. The online poker room is offering over 25,000 prizes worth over one million dollars.

The promotion will end on September...

Betfair is the first online poker room to offer seats to the upcoming Irish Classic Poker Festival while BoyleSports and PaddyPowerPoker is set to begin offering seats soon. The tickets will be given for a seat to the main event of the seventh annual Irish Classic Poker Festiv...

Yesterday the 2009 Poker Million began in London with Full Tilt Poker as the new sponsor. Because Full Tilt is involved this year some of the biggest names in poker will be participating. The first and second heat took place yesterday and today heat three and four are taking p...

The poker tournament brand, World Poker Tour, is up for sale. The announcement was made recently that the company was up for purchase after confidential information was released to third parties who might be interested in purchasing the brand.

It is believed that several onli...

It was recently announced that Bluff Europe and Britain’s Nuts magazine have come together to sign a deal for the upcoming poker festival Poker In The Park. A special group of ladies called The Nuts Girls will be appearing at the upcoming poker festival.

Britain’s...

A new film is in the works called Poker King and it is going to feature the Asian Poker Tour event in Macau as its backdrop. The film is set to be the first full-length Chinese language movie to focus on poker.

The film is being directed by Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun and th...

Sundays are great days in the online poker world as the top online poker rooms host large guaranteed poker tournaments every Sunday. Usually the competitors are the usual lot and many manage to finish well each week. This past week a poker pro popped up at PokerStars and manag...

PartyGaming is a giant in the online gaming industry so it is only natural they should make their presence known in the Italian gaming market. The online gambling operator recently announced they have launched a new Italian online poker site.

PartyGaming has launched their ne...

Harrah’s has officially released the top ten players nominated by the public to be in the Poker Hall of Fame. Poker fans have been able to vote for their favorite poker players to be nominated for induction into the Hall of Fame for five weeks. The voting time period has...

The HORSE tournament of this year’s World Series of Poker has come to an end and with 94 players competing; it would be David Bach who would walk away with the very large first place prize. To get to the top would be a long hard battle.

Bach, a thirty seven year old pok...

Kent Senter is a fifty five year old man who was diagnosed with blood cancer multiple myeloma and has only about three years to live. He enjoys playing poker and an online poker firm gave the poker fan a trip of a lifetime this week.

Senter was sent to the World Series of Pok...

Phil Hellmuth has a very impressive record when it comes to poker play especially at the World Series of Poker. However, many people still do not care for Hellmuth as his personality can get in the way. He recently showed his large ego when he arrived at the Main Event dressed...

The Entraction network has begun holding online qualifiers for players to earn seats to the upcoming European Masters of Poker Tournament which will take place in Barcelona from July 29th to August 1st. the event is expected to see 500 players and an estimated prize pool of &e...

Team 888 has performed well during the first days of the Main Event of the WSOP. The Day 1 events were spread over four days as the field was so large and they have now concluded. Team 888 has held up and will continue their quest at the felt.

6,494 players registered for the...

BoylePoker has announced the return of Europe’s largest live poker tournament. The International Poker Open is set to return this October for the third year in a row. This year BoylePoker is set to add $25,000 to the prize pool and have made big changes to the struct...

A new study has been conducted by Poker Players Research says that online poker play by females is set to grow by the year 2011. The research found that females count for one in four of real money players currently and are set to continue to grow over the next few years.

Poke...

Official 2009 tournament figures will be released later today but as of right now the running count has officially crossed the $1 billion mark in prize money awarded at the WSOP. The World Series of Poker has been running since 1970 and in its forty year time frame the top...

Online poker room EuroLinx has begun a special promotion program that will see online players earning refunds on their losses. The program is called Aces Never Lose and players who lose a hand with a pair of pocket aces will get a refund up to €25.

EuroLinx will also off...

The Ante Up For Africa Charity Tournament took place just a few days ago and many of the top poker pros and celebrity poker players were in attendance to play a little poker and raise money for charity. The tournament was supporting the refugees from the Sudan region of Darfur...

PaddyPowerPoker recently announced the schedule for the Irish Winter Festival which boasts a three day Texas Hold’em main event. The event will be back in Dublin this October at the Citywest Hotel, where is has been held before.

The festival will be capped off with the ...

Full Tilt Poker saw a good turnout on Monday for the $1k tournament. This tournament has a buy-in of $1,000 plus $60 and three hundred and twenty players registered. This created a prize pool of $320,000 with thirty six places earning a nice payday. A few play...

The European Poker Tour has ended its stop in Prague and it was Vladislav Shuravin who walked away with the title. The European Masters of Poker event had 163 competitors at the Spearmint casino duking it out for the first place prize of over €39,000.

When final table pl...

Doyle Brunson wants to party with his friends before beginning the World Series of Poker Main Event. To celebrate Brunson is working with his online poker room, DoylesRoom, to organize an exclusive party the night before the Main Event begins.

Many top poker pros and celebrit...

ClubWPT, the legal subscription poker site for the World Poker Tour, has announced they will be giving away two seats to a WPT event where they can compete for millions of dollars. Special tournaments are running throughout the month of July for players to qualify.

The two pl...

Twenty two year old Jason Mercier is the newest member of Team PokerStars Pro. Mercier was already a PokerStars SuperNova Elite and now he is a member of Team PokerStars Pro. Mercier has shown that he has the skill and knowledge of the game of poker and that he has a long care...

Poker Players will be excited to hear that Full Tilt has begun qualifiers for the NBC Face The Ace television show. Players can now try their luck at winning a seat on the brand new poker television show.

The show will begin filming on July 9th in Las Vegas and will begin air...